Josu de Solaun Soto

Josu de Solaun (born October 27, 1981) is a Spanish-American classical music pianist, composer and conductor.

In 2019 he was given the title of Officer of Cultural Merit, a state decoration, by Klaus Iohannis, president of Romania.

[1] He is winner of the First Prize at the XIII George Enescu International Piano Competition, the First Prize at the I European Union Piano Competition held in Prague, and the First Grand Prize at the XV José Iturbi International Piano Competition.

He is the first and only pianist from Spain to have ever been awarded the coveted prizes in the more than 30 and 50 years of their existence (the Iturbi and Enescu Competitions, founded in 1981 and 1958).

[2] In Spain, until the age of 17, his main teacher was Mexican pianist Maria Teresa Naranjo Ochoa.